Friday Seminar with Mauricio Olivares (LMU Munich)

About this event

13 March 2026 from 12:30 until 14:00

Salle H405

28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007, Paris

This event is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Organized by

Department of Economics

New Research, heading typed in black ink on white paper in vintage typewriter — (credits: moomsabuy/shutterstock)

Mauricio Olivares is Assistant Professor at the Statistics and Econometrics Group in the Statistics Department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich since 2022. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL).

His main research interest is in econometrics, in particular permutation-based inference, high-dimensional bootstrap approximations, and causal inference.

Mauricio Olivares' website

He will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Specification Testing for Latent Variable Models (paper to follow)